Transformative gestures

Douglas Yacek’s recent book The Transformative Classroom proposes a useful aspirational model of transformative education. In this critical commentary, I review and suggest that while it succeeds in overcoming some ethical shortcomings other dominant models education, would like to focusing on more subtle gestures could have the benefit being less dependent teacher’s intention transform constrained by expectation transformation should take place primarily classroom. When is conceived as an educational fiction, may be retroactive experience constructed around memories teacher's gestures, thereby adding allowing for continue beyond walls